Asteroids Game
Over the course of a couple of hours I created a little basic clone/prototype game of Asteroids, albeit without a score, lives or the asteroids breaking into smaller ones.This was more an exercise to...
View ArticleMinecraft: The Fall of Gondolin
As people who know me know, I like playing the game Minecraft from time to time, especially adventure maps with my little brother (whom I brought the game for on a whim and am rather proud of the time...
View ArticleAsteroids Ship AI
After I challenged myself to create an Asteroids like game in Java in a short space of time and subsequently then spent extra time making everything look a bit better I decided I should try to see how...
View ArticleGenetic Algorithms
I’ve always enjoyed looking at Artificial Intelligence and the various techniques used to make AI. Two techniques I found quite interesting are Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks (something we had...
View ArticleTop Down Shooter and the Slick Library
Over the past week I have been looking at the Slick libraries Javadoc and its features. So to get myself started with it I decided to create a small top down shooter. So far I have the basic framework...
View ArticleTower Defence Game: The Paths & Tower Placement Plan
Recently I have been carrying a small notepad around with me that I got a JavaOne and have been jotting down ideas for a Tower Defence game in it that I thought I’d share. Many people advocate the...
View ArticleWhy I Choose to Make Games
[WARNING: Contains Nostalgia] When I was younger I used to enjoy TV, films and cartoons as any child would of growing up in the 90s, television shows like Power Rangers fuelled my imagination. Games...
View ArticleAn Android App: Word Wheel Helper/Solver
Well I did it! I optimised my Word Wheel Solver and turned it into a functional Android Application! That’s a screenshot from earlier tonight when I got it working. Since then I recoded the way it...
View ArticlePersonal Project: LMinify, CSS and JavaScript Minifier
Recently at work we have been looking at ways of reducing file size of our HTML, CSS and JavaScript files. One such way for the last two is to minify them; that is to strip out the unneeded parts of...
View ArticleBlog Update & University Options
Blog Update I haven’t posted in a while annoyingly, sorry about I’ve been busy with other responsibilities and it seems there aren’t enough hours in the day as I’d like there to be! You may of noticed...
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